Sugar: A Bittersweet History

Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution.

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Página 62Factories, where workers toiled for wages beside strangers, sprang up.
Standardization became the norm: hours of labor, productivity, wages and
working conditions were all controlled. Social life changed drastically. Rural
workers forced off ...

Página 182Industrialist Benjamin Delessert responded and opened a small processing factory in Passy. Napoleon was so impressed with the quality of the beet sugar
the factory produced that he presented Delessert with his own Legion of Honor
sash.

Página 303Two years later, in Northampton, Massachusetts, a fledgling factory shut down
because its beets had a low sugar content. In 1852, the Mormons attempted to
introduce sugar beet into Utah as part of their vision of self-sufficiency in all things
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Was disappointed in this, although it did have its moments. Parts were undigested, and it lacked a real overview and global perspective somehow. That being said, i devoured the detail on the West Indian lobby and British sugar traders.Leer comentario completo

Acerca del autor (2008)

ELIZABETH ABBOTT is the bestselling author of A History of Celibacy, A History of Mistresses, A History of Marriage, and Sugar. Abbott has written for numerous media, including The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, and The Gazette (Montreal). She lives in Toronto.